The wild weather continued to batter the city, and it was on the darkest morning yet that Ariel woke ... knowing.
Nothing of physical discomfort nor mental apprehension had roused her; nothing but that flash of intuitive certainty which knew undeniably that she was pregnant. She hadn't been dreaming; she was very wide awake, but for moments the conviction seemed to be all her mind contained. But as coherent thought took over, she was remembering and noticing signs and odd disturbances which she had ignored at the time-her faint at the door of the salotto, a turn of giddiness when she had been reaching for a peach, and Robinson question on the night she had fainted- “ Is there anything you want to tell me? “ a question she had utterly misunderstood and hadn't been able to answer, but whi
